[Afternoon update]
Something else to celebrate — the fall of the House of Waxman:
The committee was an unending source of ghastly new legislative proposals for regulatory manacles to be fastened on one or another sector of the economy , ideas that with any luck we may now be spared for the next two years. Thus it appears unlikely that the Republican-led committee will give its blessing to something called the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010 (H.R. 5786), introduced by Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), which — by mandating that all compounds found in personal-care items at any detectable level be expensively tested for and disclosed on labels — could have added tens of thousands of dollars of cost overhead to that little herbal-soap business your sister is trying to start in her garage. (Fragrance expert Robert Tisserand explains why most small personal-care product makers would not survive if the bill passed). Nor is it likely that the new leadership of chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) will be in a hurry to adopt Rep. Schakowsky’s H.R. 1408, the Inclusive Home Design Act, which would mandate handicap accessibility features in most new private homes.
He really is one of the more odious creatures in that cesspool. It’s a shame that he didn’t lose his seat completely, but that’s probably a forlorn hope in his West LA district. But at least he’s been defanged.
To mangle a quote from someone apparently semi-famous, I think a tingle just went up my leg.
She’s not dead, she simply has been sealed back into her tomb for the time being. We’re not safe until she retires or is defeated in an election.
We’re not safe until she retires or is defeated in an election.
By that standard, we’re not safe till San Francisco suffers from a highly contagious epidemic of common sense. Needless to say, I don’t see that happening.
As my daughter pointed out there are a lot of parallels to Lord Voldemort.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Voldemort
By that standard, we’re not safe till San Francisco suffers from a highly contagious epidemic of common sense. Needless to say, I don’t see that happening.
You’re more likely to win the PowerBall while being struck by lightning as a shark eats you than for that kind of sanity to happen in San Francisco.
Waxman never found a technology that he didn’t hate. He has been the biggest enemy of progress in the House since the 1980’s. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
For anyone who hasn’t figured it out, Waxman is an alien on a mission to keep of poor and undeveloped so we can’t resist the coming extraterrestrial invasion.
Henry Waxman is a trog, a fiend from the Pit, a compelling argument for the existence of zombies who prize the taste of human brain tissue, the living (?) embodiment of a racial thanatos. I would disenfranchise, if not strip of citizenship, dip in boiling vinegar and deport, everyone who ever voted for the monster, sent him money, or mentioned his name in print except as the object of a heartfelt curse, Constitution be damned. He is a one-man neutron bomb, an intellectual Typhoid Mary, a totem of the Heat Death, an aortic aneurysm in the body politic, a fuming toxic drop of 200-proof liquid evil with an OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit of less than one part per quinquavigintillion. I find it unlikely in the extreme that normal human DNA can code for him, and flatly unbelievable that he was born of woman, and did not spring, fully tentacled and dripping in pH 0 slime, from the forehead of Hades.
Sheesh Carl, that superhuman exercise of restraint deserves a round of thunderous applause.
“It’s a shame that [Waxman] didn’t lose his seat completely, but that’s probably a forlorn hope in his West LA district.”
Ah, but what about redistricting? The power to gerrymander has been stripped from the legislature. No doubt our Democratic Party lords and masters will try their damnedest to squash the new law on redistricting, but what if they fail? Real hope and change may be coming to Commiefornia after all.
“Mister Pham, it was a pleasure watching you work.”
Instead of Carl sugarcoating it, I would like to see him tell us what he really thinks.